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James Marion Sims's Treatment of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Apr 12, 2013
James Marion Sims developed a treatment for vesico-vaginal fistulas in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1840s. Vesico-vaginal fistulas were a relatively…
TechnologySpeculum (Medicine)Fistula, Vesico-vaginalSurgeryGynecology
James Marion Sims (1813-1883)
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Apr 08, 2013
James Marion Sims developed a surgical cure for ruptures of the wall separating the bladder from the vagina during labor, ruptures called vesico-…
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The Process of Implantation of Embryos in Primates
By: Justin M. Wolter
| Published: Mar 21, 2013
Implantation is a process in which a developing embryo, moving as a blastocyst through a uterus, makes contact with the uterine wall and remains…
FetusPregnancyEmbryologyDevelopmental BiologyEmbryos
Howard Wilber Jones Jr.
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Mar 03, 2013
Howard Wilber Jones Jr. and his wife, Georgeanna Seegar Jones, developed a method of in vitro fertilization and helped create the first baby in the…
FetusPregnancyEmbryologyEmbryosReproduction
Anencephaly
By: Jesse King
| Published: Feb 13, 2013
Anencephaly is an open neural tube defect, meaning that part of the neural tube does not properly close or that it has reopened during early…
fetal developmentFetus--AbnormalitiesBirth DefectsEmbryologyPregnancy
"Maternal consumption of peanut during pregnancy is associated with peanut sensitization in atopic infants" (2010), by Scott Sicherer, et al.
By: Maggie Pingolt
| Published: Jan 30, 2013
In 2010, a team of US researchers concluded that the more peanuts a pregnant woman ate during her pregnancy, the more likely her newborn was to be…
ExperimentsReproductionPregnancyFetus
Fetal Surgery
By: Kathleen O'Connor, Erica O'Neil
| Published: Nov 01, 2012
Fetal surgeries are a range of medical interventions performed in utero on the developing fetus of a pregnant woman to treat a number of congenital…
Fetus--SurgeryFetoscopyUltrasonics in obstetricsPregnancyEndoscopy
Gunther von Hagens (1945- )
By: Britta Martinez
| Published: Oct 10, 2012
Gunther von Hagens invented a plastination technique and created Body Worlds, a traveling exhibit that has made anatomy part of the public domain.…
PlastinationHuman bodyAnatomical museumsHuman AnatomyEmbryos
Fetus in Fetu
By: Corinne DeRuiter
| Published: May 30, 2012
Fetus in fetu is a rare variety of parasitic twins , where the developmentally abnormal parasitic twin is completely encapsulated within the torso of…
FetusEmbryosfetal developmentPregnancyFetus--Abnormalities
In the Womb: Identical Twins (2009), by National Geographic
By: Maggie Pingolt
| Published: Mar 08, 2012
National Geographic's documentary In the Womb: Identical Twins focuses on the prenatal development of human identical twins. Director Lorne Townend…
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